Improvement in medical compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ROBERT HARTMAN AND HOWARD I. MGGONNELL, OF ATLANTA,'GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,858, dated September 23, 1879; application filed May 26, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, R. HARTMAN and H. I. MOOONNELL, of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Medical Compound, which isfully described in the following specification.

This compoundconsists of the following ingredients: alum, copperas, sugar, vinegar.

These are mixed in about the following proportions: alum, twenty-five per cent; copperas, twenty-five per cent.; sugar, twentyfive per ccnt.; vinegar, twenty-five per cent.

The compound is used as a cure for cancer, white swelling, old sores, and fistula by applying a small quantity on a white cotton cloth to theaffected part twice each day, the sore being previously washed in warm Water with castile-soap.

The compound is also used as a cure for dry catarrh. When thus used it is applied by means of a nasal syringe, at first in a weak solution, the strength of the solution being af- ROBT. HARTMAN. HOWARD ISAAC MCGONNELL.

Witnesses;

CHARLES J. BARTON, J OHN RHEA. 

